Homeopathic Materia Medica

AETHUSA CYNAPIUM

(aeth)

(Fool's Parsley) The characteristic symptoms relate mainly to the brain and nervous system, connected with gastro-intestinal disturbance. Anguish, crying, and expression of uneasiness and discontent, lead to this remedy most frequently in disease in children, during dentition, summer complaint, When, with the diarrhoea, there is MARKED INABILITY TO DIGEST MILK, and poor circulation. Symptoms set in with VIOLENCE.

Head Feels bound up, or in a vise. OCCIPITAL PAIN extending down spine; better lying down and by pressure. Head symptoms relieved by expelling flatus (SANGUIN.) and by stool. HAIR FEELS PULLED. VERTIGO WITH DROWSINESS, WITH PALPITATION; HEAD HOT AFTER VERTIGO CEASES.

StomachINTOLERANCE OF MILK; vomiting as soon as swallowed or in large curds. Hungry after vomiting. REGURGITATION OF FOOD ABOUT AN HOUR AFTER EATING. Violent vomiting of a white frothy matter. Nausea at sight of food. Painful contraction of stomach. Vomiting, WITH SWEAT AND GREAT WEAKNESS, accompanied by anguish and distress, followed by sleepiness. Stomach feels turned upside down, with burning feeling up to the chest. Tearing pains in the stomach extending to oesophagus.

Abdomen Cold, internal and external, with aching pain in bowels. Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo, and weakness, Tense, inflated, and sensitive. Bubbling sensation around navel.

StoolUNDIGESTED, THIN, GREENISH, preceded by colic, with tenesmus, and followed by exhaustion and drowsiness. Cholera infantum; child cold, clammy, stupid, with staring eyes and dilated pupils. Obstinate constipation; feels as if all bowel action is lost. Choleraic affections in old age.

Heart Violent palpitation, with vertigo, headache and restlessness. Pulse rapid, hard and small. Back and Extremities. Want of power to stand up or hold head up. Back feels as if in a vise. Aching in small of back. Weakness of lower extremities. Fingers and thumbs clenched. Numbness of hands and feet. Violent spasms. Squinting of eyes downward.